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Nomadic Warriors for Pritzker

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Posting live from the Most Serene IL-Khanate of the Great Khan JB Pritzker

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Nomadic Warriors for Pritzker @nomads.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I went on Friday and it was busy, but not crazy. This is just a sign that the city should host more street fairs!
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Nomadic Warriors for Pritzker @nomads.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Yes why should a political party deliver for their base?
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Nomadic Warriors for Pritzker @nomads.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
@annecaprara.bsky.social
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Nomadic Warriors for Pritzker @nomads.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I feel this is my contribution to humanity forever
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Nomadic Warriors for Pritzker @nomads.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
The Mongols were historically progressive
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Miss Emily Anarchy @msemilystarot.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
It’s not quite Most Serene IL-Khanate Pritz’ka, but we’d take it… @nomads.bsky.social
Gov Pritzker having a drink……from a “Pritzker for Khan” mug, from a very strange Internet running gag that he seems 100% fine withMost Serene IL-Khanate Je’beh Pritz’ka of The Northern Steppes
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Nomadic Warriors for Pritzker @nomads.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
#JBforKhan
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Paul Gowder @gowder.io · 03/07/2026
WHERE IS @jbpritzker.bsky.social @nomads.bsky.social
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Nomadic Warriors for Pritzker @nomads.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
I've been watching episodes of Seinfeld, and it has made me curious: could a language model be trained to replicate the voice of a character? So, I built a quiz - see if you can guess if a Seinfeld line is real, or written by AI: chatter-labs.org/seinfeld/
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Can you tell the real Seinfeld lines from the AI fakes? A two-round line-spotting game.
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Nomadic Warriors for Pritzker @nomads.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
I will be training a new, much-larger "Mr. Chatterbox" checkpoint, developing a fine-tuning dataset that exclusively uses historical data, and training sub-models to reflect specific perspectives from the Victorian era. Thanks to Cosmos for supporting this project!
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Nomadic Warriors for Pritzker @nomads.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
I recently got some incredible news: I've received a grant from the Cosmos Institute (cosmos-institute.org) to continue developing my Victorian-era language model. This grant will go towards employing AI/NLP to conduct literary, historical, and humanistic research—something I think is badly-needed.
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Cosmos Institute
Cosmos Institute is the Academy for Philosopher Builders
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Nomadic Warriors for Pritzker @nomads.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Hmm yes. A worthy question for a mind of his caliber.
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Nomadic Warriors for Pritzker @nomads.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
There's a ton of apartment building around there anyway - and two of the lots for the proposed building site are vacant!
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Nomadic Warriors for Pritzker @nomads.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
The idea that this apt building is out of character for this neighborhood is laughable - it's 1 block away from downtown Urbana, on the same block as a grocery store.
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Galen @galengalengalen.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
I hate that Donald Trump is the one throwing backyard cage fights at the White House. I feel like Pritzker Kahn needs to get Noche De Los Grandes moved to the Lincoln Park Zoo. @nomads.bsky.social
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Nomadic Warriors for Pritzker @nomads.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
I suspect he's been doing this for a while, and gotten sloppier as time has gone on. Us on March 5 - newrepublic.com/article/2073... Barkan on March 16 - nymag.com/intelligence...
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Who Will Lead the Dems to the Promised Land of a New Israel Policy?
It’s clear the Democratic Party rank and file demands a new position on Israel. There’s one candidate, or maybe two, who can best answer that call, if they choose to.
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Nomadic Warriors for Pritzker @nomads.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Re: the Barkan affair: in March Rich Yeselson and I wrote an article on the Dems and Israel. 11 days later Barkan published an extremely similar piece - similar framing, points made, structure, everything. Is it exactly the same? No, but egregious when you read both in parallel.
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Nomadic Warriors for Pritzker @nomads.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Very annoying!
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Nomadic Warriors for Pritzker @nomads.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Right?
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Nomadic Warriors for Pritzker @nomads.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Polling Rahm but not Pritzker lol
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Nomadic Warriors for Pritzker @nomads.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Polling Rahm but not Pritzker? Be so real right now
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Nomadic Warriors for Pritzker @nomads.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Ah yes, what the German called die untersäuglinge
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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 08/05/2026
Pole arms.
a depiction of the evolution of Pole Arms
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Soy Boy @soyboy.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
If I recall my omens correctly this portends the great eight year reign of the glorious khan. Soon we will ride with @nomads.bsky.social
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Nomadic Warriors for Pritzker @nomads.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
I think Ro is a paper tiger. Media types cast him as progressive but AFAIK he has no grassroots support
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Nomadic Warriors for Pritzker @nomads.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Agreed
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Nomadic Warriors for Pritzker @nomads.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
I talked to NBC last week about a really important topic: the ability of Pritzker to potentially build a coalition that includes progressives and the left. www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...
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Who will own the Bernie Sanders lane in 2028?
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y. is seen as a frontrunner for the left if she runs, but many progressives say they're open to others as well.
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Will Wiles @willwiles.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
(I make a "mouth" with the side of my hand and draw little eyes above it) Richard Dawkins: hmmmm (I put lipstick around the "mouth") Richard Dawkins, suavely: well hello
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Nomadic Warriors for Pritzker @nomads.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Woah, I had no idea! Wow!
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Nomadic Warriors for Pritzker @nomads.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
That said, it did *not* want to talk about the Bee movie
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Nomadic Warriors for Pritzker @nomads.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
For Instance:
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Nomadic Warriors for Pritzker @nomads.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
This is really amazing: a team trained a 13 billion-parameter language model on out-of-copyright texts up to 1930. It's like talking to a guy from the Hoover presidency: talkie-lm.com/introducing-...
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Introducing talkie: a 13B vintage language model from 1930
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Nomadic Warriors for Pritzker @nomads.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Trump obviously sounds ridiculous here, but this is actually a masterful demonstration from Tim Cook on how to handle him: call him with an ask, but flatter him by framing it as some intractable business problem that can only be solved by the Master of Deals.
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Nomadic Warriors for Pritzker @nomads.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
🏔️🐴Oh great Tengri, show your favor to the illustrious Brad Underwood and his mighty band of giant Balkan Janissaries as they face down the dogs of puny Connecticut
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Nomadic Warriors for Pritzker @nomads.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
lol
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
yeah this is a funny phenomenon you come across; counter-intelligence people really dislike the Israeli government! bring up Pollard to them and watch them spit glass
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Grace @gracekind.net · 30/03/2026
I got LLM psychosis from Mr. Chatterbox
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Simon Willison @simonwillison.net · 31/03/2026
The Mr. chatterbox creator has a good explanation of what they were trying to achieve with it here www.estragon.news/mr-chatterbo...
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Mr. Chatterbox, or, The Modern Prometheus
A few days ago, I posted about a personal project that I've been working on for the last few weeks: Mr. Chatterbox, a chatbot trained from scratch on Victorian-era literature. I have to admit, I was t...
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Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Interesting to read about building this small-scale LLM project and the fine-tuning and sycophancy that comes in even when trained entirely on Victorian-era novels
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Nomadic Warriors for Pritzker @nomads.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Thanks! As the adage goes, you can just do things
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Nomadic Warriors for Pritzker @nomads.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Thank you! Demystification was definitely one of my goals in writing that.
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Nomadic Warriors for Pritzker @nomads.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Thank you! I'm glad you liked it!
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Nomadic Warriors for Pritzker @nomads.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Thank you! Glad you like it!
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Simon Willison @simonwillison.net · 30/03/2026
Mr. Chatterbox is a really fun project. It's not great to talk to but it's a fun demo of what you can build using entirely out-of-copyright training data It's a 2GB nanochat model - I released a new llm-mrchatterbox plugin that can run it on my Mac simonwillison.net/2026/Mar/30/...
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Mr. Chatterbox is a (weak) Victorian-era ethically trained model you can run on your own computer
Trip Venturella released Mr. Chatterbox, a language model trained entirely on out-of-copyright text from the British Library. Here’s how he describes it: Mr. Chatterbox is a language model trained ent...
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Nomadic Warriors for Pritzker @nomads.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
I didn't try that - might be interesting to try!
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Nomadic Warriors for Pritzker @nomads.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Latin, Greek, scripture and mathematics! What more do you need
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Nomadic Warriors for Pritzker @nomads.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Yup! I wrote it up in detail Here: bsky.app/profile/noma...
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dinolawyer.bsky.social @dinolawyer.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
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Colin @colin-fraser.net · 31/03/2026
This is a great account that really teaches you a lot about how modern LLMs get made
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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 30/03/2026
This is in the best traditions of DH. Its success didn't depend on big compute or extensive tech background, but on good design + 19c vibes. And yet, in fact, figuring out how to fine-tune something like this is not a solved problem, and people w/ more compute hours could learn from the experiment.
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